As North Korea warned foreigners on Tuesday that they might want to leave South Korea because the peninsula was on the brink of nuclear war — a statement that analysts dismissed as hyperbole — the American commander in the Pacific expressed worries that the North’s young leader, Kim Jong-un, might not have left himself an easy exit to reduce tensions.

Why is this happening? Maybe this is the answer.

Divisions within the military, and the desire of a leader who may be only 30-years-old to consolidate his position, could be one factor behind the current spate of aggression.

“The further north you go (in North Korea), the more you hear rumours of dissension and divisions over who is or who would have been a better leader,” said Joseph Bermudez, an expert on the North Korean military and an analyst at DigitalGlobe.

On the other hand…

When asked if the North Korean army is still strong, Lt Kim answered automatically: “Yes, very strong”. The man who smuggled him out of North Korea, however, doubled up laughing at the officer’s response.

“They are taught that they are the strongest army in the world, and the best equipped. But in reality, their equipment is what we were using in China 60 years ago!” he said.

“North Korea has been able to grow its nuclear program primarily because the Bush administration abruptly vacated the previous Clinton administration policy of engagement — in March 2001, a dozen years ago this month. Bush told a shocked South Korean president Kim Dae Jung about this unanticipated policy change in private during a summit. To reporters and the public at large, Bush says,

“Part of the problem in dealing with North Korea, there’s not very much transparency. We’re not certain as to whether or not they’re keeping all terms of all agreements.”

“At the end of 2002, North Korea kicked out all IAEA inspectors — those which had been monitoring NK’s nuclear program under the Clinton administration’s previously negotiated 1994 Agreed Framework — thereby eliminating any transparency just as North Korea removed monitoring devices and seals from their nuclear program equipment.”

Ya! That Bay of Pigs thing in Cuba went REAL WELL! Although I’m sure you probably think I’m referring to the Cuban Missile Crisis. (Hint: The Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis were 2 completely separate events.)

And that speech in Berlin claiming that he was a jelly roll was also pretty good foreign politics too.

JFK was living proof that all you had to do was get voted President as a Democrat and you could pretty much be give you a pass on anything. Clinton even reaffirmed it when it came to screwing around and getting everyone to forget little details like that impeachment thing. So it doesn’t surprise me that you would think Obama is some kind of hero even though he’s bankrupting America.

But now, with North Korea we have NUKES to deal with and a President who’s never served a day in his life! At least JFK served in the Navy as a U-Boat playboy and had some idea of why he needed a gun. But not Obama. And do I even have to point out how Obama would probably have a hard time leading ants to a picnic?!

So if I’m to believe you’re ostrich mentality, this whole Korean thing sounds like a recipe for more success. Right?!

I’ll just have to assume we will live through it where our libtard press can redefine just what a success is.

And never mind any revisionist history either. That always comes later and is always written by a Socialist!

Clearly those are not American children, they are too precisely arranged under the tables.

A good percentage of our over medicated brats would be wandering glassy eyed in the halls and playground, only some haphazardly under the chair while Obamaluia children’s chorus chants the latest homily to our Dear Leader…and pray he send them a invite to the next WH concert.

You are assuming that international sanctions are doing their thing. I actually don’t think they are a bar to trade with China or several other nations. Their biggest problem is they have to keep their own people ignorant of what is going on elsewhere or they are going to be ridding a tiger. They may be anyway.

Good thinking deowll. Their tiger now is hungry and uninformed, out of touch with the world. Feed the tiger and they’ll have the time/energy to want the rest.

Best Korea is off its nut as any country with Hereditary Rulers is ((think Bush or Clinton?)). EVERY REASONABLE PERSON knows they should be mostly ignored with Total Retaliation should they loose a nuke.

…..so, it will be instructive to watch and listen: who says what and does what? Who uses this illusory threat to gin up support for what? You know===who tries to put one over on the USA Taxpayer for instance.

So far, I’ve only seen talk of Japan and/or S.Korea wanting their own Nukes…Hey!==and how the USA should not allow that and keep paying for these defeated enemies own defense. Ha, ha….. what we gonna do?//and why???

2-3-4th in Space now. Nuclear Club getting larger all the time. Deficits no where to go but deeper.

Is this how an Empire Shrinks? Looking at Mother England as our example, we can see not until the Muslims start declaring Sharia Law over the neighborhoods where they predominate.

Hey jp–did you ever circle your grass and smoke your friends? Likewise, you have my meaning backwards but yours is a fair read, just tilt your head in the other direction to see I was referring to and Empire being shrunk when religion gains too much influence. Wouldn’t matter which religion although the Muslim is unique in not separating church from state. Funny that Christians and Muslims share so much at the core but “render unto Cesar” makes all the difference in the world. Comes from being born in ….an Opressive Empire… vs already being the Official religion.

Adversity…. makes all kinds of difference.

Just put your ideas into words===then write them down. Repeat…. constantly changing/honing. What makes more sense, what doesn’t??

You do that already all the time. Just do it with more conscious intent.

I’ve not been to France or a place/town where the population completely overtakes the ruling power. Where police will not venture and Sharia law is the law of the town. I don’t subscribe to Hmeyers conclusion that bombing is the best way to communicate with Muslims. Sharia today is a hijacked deformation of a religion. Just as Christianity had upheavals, so did and will Islam.
The changes in Sharia happened with western occupations and industrial changes to the M.E.N.A. region.

The military industrial complex takes advantage of the turmoil happening now . Recruiting our young idealistic malleable future citizens and propels them into a shit storm. This N. Korean media blitz feels like déjà vu. Vietnam, Iraq now N. Korea.

I don’t know about you guys but I am hoping for a war with N.Korea and China, when they back them up. When this happens I’m signing up to go killing (if the service will take a middle age man). I can’t say much about N.Korea since I haven’t visited it but as for China I despise that country. I despise how they treat young children and kids. Live free or die hard!

Nope, I’m just a guy joining the military to go to War and KILL. That’s War. What’s so hard to understand about that? You mean you want me to wait until I’ve experienced bullets flying around me, until I have friends died, until I see them abuse kids? Or are you saying it sucks to have a reason beforehand? Sure I’ll admit my reasons are cynical but hey why don’t some of you try firsthand seeing how these kids are mistreated. Reading about them is definitely not the same as experiencing it in person, try it.

Government or not, NO ONE is doing anything about them. I know, I’ve search, talked to people, talk to law offices and courts and all that I could. So why should I pity the government or the people that don’t care? Wait for revolution you said…yea, that guy that stood in front of those tanks…he’s nowhere to be seen any longer.

So if no one gives a hoot and I kinda do what can I do? Hmm…this is a good opportunity I say wouldn’t you?

And before anyone goes off saying yes there are organizations out there to help they are not enough. The corruption is too organized, too large and too dangerous to tackle. For “your” christ sake, people are kidnapped, maimed to hell, tossed into the streets to beg for money. And I’m a psychopath? For wanting to “join” the military and go to War and kill people? 😀

Our military has been testing Reagan’s “Star Wars” non-stop for 27 years. They better be able to shoot down the missle or the Trillion (yes that is right a Trillion) dollar program should be shut down and the engineers, brass, and congressmen that built it should be jailed for fraud and theft. Period.

High school physics scribbled on the back of an envelope then, and still now, proves that with current technology you have near zero chance of shooting down an incoming ICBM traveling at 3 miles per second. Starwars was always a big lie to the American public. No enemy has been fooled since the (successful) lie of Nike missiles in the early ’60s used against the Soviets.

The only way to have a chance of thwarting a missile launch against any target is to shoot it down during it’s launch phase.

You know when you say *unt you sound like a stuck up fart who wouldn’t say shit if they had a mouthful of it. Find your balls and be an adult and just say cunt, phrasing it any other way just sounds stupid.

Who gives a fuck? I hear woman use it more than men so the must not hate it that much. If your going to insult someone than do it, don’t half ass it and think your being cute or protecting someones delicate sensibilities.

My prediction is that if NK gets close to really starting a conflict, China will step up and tell the West “We got this.”

The last thing China wants is the West dealing with their neighbor. They will take out the little fart and install someone they know is much more stable. You gotta think the Chinese intelligence has many high-level contacts in the NK government and military. A few words in the right ears and Kim Jong-un will suffer a massive heart attack or stroke.

We’re their biggest export market… They aren’t going to look favorably at us being attacked.

Watching the US (Alaska, Hawaii and some possessions anyway,) Russia, India, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Malasia, Indonesia, and themselves be targeted by some trumped up twirp with bad hair may be more than they can put up with.

I suspect that the Kim dynasty is coming to an abrupt end, (exactly like what happened to Hussein.)

China can keep the territory and use it like they do Tibet and the other Himalayan kingdoms.

I’m sure that Best Korea, with its seven decades decades of non-development, is going to make a great unspoilt eco-tourist destination among the Chinese elites.

They get to build the country up using the latest technology, charge the peasants out the ying-yang for the privilege and look like liberators to history and to current events.

Supreme Ultrahuman (I see the comment system is still designed for retards.)says:

The whole N. Korea nuclear threat showing Lil Kim peering with cheap binoculars at something in the distance along with Lil Kim threatening America feels scripted. C’mon… Rod-man and some Globetrotters along with what look like handlers travel into N. Korea and now Kim wants war. Bogative, I tell ya, bogative.

I was born in 1940 and know that I breathed in my share of Strontium 90 and may be suffering memory loss as a result, but I don’t recall any drill, such as shown in the photograph, ever taking place at school.
I always assumed the photo was an illustration of an ‘urban legend’ or a vestige of mind control.

“Show the same photo enough times and people will believe it was common or that they remember participating in such drill.”

Common sense would tell a thinking person, ‘Hiding under your desk would be futile.’

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